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Jacob Fox

AMD is considering a Ryzen 5 9600X3D 'later this year' but its value for gaming could suffer against its own stiff competition

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor.

Sometimes the best things at Computex are the things that aren't at Computex; namely, talk of upcoming tech. Case in point here is AMD's Ryzen and Radeon VP and GM David McAfee telling Tom's Hardware that a Zen 5 replacement for the Ryzen 5 7600X3D—meaning surely a Ryzen 5 9600X3D—“may be something that we look at doing… later this year."

AMD launched the former chip way back in 2024, but it was very limited in numbers because it was only sold by Microcenter. There was talk of a 9600X3D as long ago as this time last year, as references to it were found in driver notes, but nothing ever came of it.

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